Dec 5, 2012

Review: Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Title: Pushing
the Limits

Author: Katie
McGarry

Publisher: HarlequinTeen

Publication Date: 7.31.2012

Pages: 392

Genre: Contemporary

Series: No

Source: ARC
from BEA

Rating: A-

Summary:

No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl
with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on
her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All
she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah
Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket,
explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding,
Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have
nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is
pretty muchimpossible.

Yet the crazy
attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just
how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might
teach her how to love again.

Review:

I think I can credit this book with jump starting my
renewed obsession with contemporary novels. I got through cycles where I obsess
over a certain genre and read it to death.
I hadn’t read a contemporary novel in months before this one, and Katie McGarry
totally restored my faith and love for this type of book. Heady, romantic, and
down-right drool-worthy, Pushing the
Limits could easily be compared to every other bad-boy-meets-wounded-girl
novel, with the singular exception that it was written with McGarry’s flawless
grace.

Echo is a damaged girl, repressing memories of how she
came by these winding scars etched into her arms. Noah is a boy that’s been
beaten down by the system repeatedly. Together these two collide and explode
like a 4th of July fireworks display. Maybe I’m just a sucker for this ‘type’
of story, but there is so much more to it than that.

This is one of those novels where the alternating
perspectives just worked. Getting
into Echo’s head and then Noah’s was intensely revealing and really added to
the overall appeal of the novel. Watching them fall in love, and not just
getting a one-sided perspective, was fantastic. I loved it.

The only fault I found with the novel were Echo’s father
and step-mother. I get that these two were supposed to be overbearing and
somewhat villainous, but after a while I was just flat out fed up with them.
They truly started to irritate the bejeezus out of me.

Pushing the Limits
is a fabulously romantic story with a mysterious twist. Definitely a book to
check out sooner rather than later.

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comments:

I loved this book too! I love to see alternate POV's in a romance so I can see/feel things from both sides. I'm starting to read a lot more contemporary romances as well, but still trying to split my time with paranormal romances.

"This is one of those novels where the alternating perspectives just worked."

YES!!! I absolutely LOVED the dual POV in this book, it was so nice to get into both Noah and Echo's heads and see what was rattling around in there. And I'm mildly in love with Noah. Just saying. Can't wait for Beth's story!

I really must read this book. The sad thing is, it is sitting on my bookshelf and it stares at me day after day, begging to be read. I rarely hear so much positive being thrown around about a book by so many people. Now this review. I really need to hurry it up, already!

I got 2 copies of this at BEA and my BBF (best blogger friend) kayla almost walked to my house from n carolina to get it..lolz..didnt want to wait for the mail..lol..I am sad to say I did not read it, I began it and like it a lot. its awesome actually. I need to finish it.

I know I will adore it too. Book 2 i coming out in the next few months I am excited about that.Bella's Bookshelf